With the new season creeping ever closer, most of the rumoured Liverpool action on the transfer market continues to concern who is likely to leave the club, with the latest name added to the list that of Daniel Agger. He's joined by Craig Bellamy, as with the Olympics now over for Stuart Pearce's Team GB, speculation that a deal to send the attacker home to Cardiff is all but done is once again heating up. In the past it might have been easy to shrug off such talk as baseless speculation—or to imagine all the world-class talent the club could bring in to replace a departing first team player—but after a number of summers that have seen Liverpool's squad steadily downgraded it has become increasingly difficult not to assume the worst.